Colloquium

Nearby Galaxies: Evolution in Your Neighborhood

Speaker:Daniela Calzetti, U. Mass

Date:February 12, 2014

Time:4:15 pm

Location:Pupin 329

Host:Jacqueline

Despite many decades of progress in understanding the evolution
of stellar populations in galaxies, we have still fundamental
questions that have remained unanswered. These include: how do
stars cluster in galaxies, and how do these structures evolve in
time? Do we actually have a `clustered' and `diffuse' mode of star
formation? When structures remain bound (star clusters), how do
their populations evolve? Is the stellar Initial Mass FUnction
universal? How are popular star formation rate indicators affected
by the recent star formation history of a galaxy? The answer to
these questions informs our theories for the evolution of galaxies
through cosmic times. Many of these questions are being addressed
by recent projects that combine UV and high-angular resolution
with the Hubble Space Telescope, and which I will describe
together with the results they have obtained so far.'